The ultimate goal of a kleptocracy
Feb. 17th, 2014 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayne"The Founding Fathers...put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn't you were just a citizen and got to vote...One of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you're a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community."
-- Tea Party Nation president Judson Phillips
"The Tom Perkins system is: You don't get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes... But what I really think is, it should be like a corporation. You pay a million dollars, you get a million votes."
-- Silicon Valley entrepreneur Tom Perkins
Perkins is quite an amusing guy. There's one weakness to his argument, though: corporations like GE don't pay taxes. Lots of big corps cook their books via off-shore entities that they don't pay taxes at all. So even in Tom's world, they wouldn't get a vote under their current business practices.
So in Tom's world, we'd actually have corps paying a lot more tax. That would be interesting.
-- Tea Party Nation president Judson Phillips
"The Tom Perkins system is: You don't get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes... But what I really think is, it should be like a corporation. You pay a million dollars, you get a million votes."
-- Silicon Valley entrepreneur Tom Perkins
Perkins is quite an amusing guy. There's one weakness to his argument, though: corporations like GE don't pay taxes. Lots of big corps cook their books via off-shore entities that they don't pay taxes at all. So even in Tom's world, they wouldn't get a vote under their current business practices.
So in Tom's world, we'd actually have corps paying a lot more tax. That would be interesting.
